Monty
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- Jan 26, 2005
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Continuation of JD's Encampment Hunt
I got back home yesterday afternoon and had time to loll about and reflect on the hunt in Missouri. It was such a great pleasure to meet and interact with so many fine people from T-net, ones that I formerly just knew as a name or a number but now I have a face to go with it and now I can see them in my mind as I read their posts.
I would like to apologize to any of the members who did not recognize my usual jovial self as I did not get to mingle as much as I wanted to. I posted last week that I had been having a flare up with my back and to my chagrin it got worse from the drive to the hunt. I was in great pain and was taking mass quantities of pain killers just to remain upright so I could visit with everyone. I'm sure some of you could tell something was wrong so I think I owe you an explanation. So, that aside, I did very much enjoy the occasion.
On the day of the hunt I was able to make through about half the day before I had to take a seat and dose up! I found mass quantities of pieces of rusted barbed wire using my GTI 2500. I'm sure this was the remains of barbed wire used to keep the wild critters out of the encampment area. You never know when a wild badger, rabid skunk or ill tempered field mouse might attack them in their sleep as a Union soldier slept in his tent! Ineffective as it may have been, I'm sure it had some historical significance. Before lunch I did manage to recover a 3 ring minnie ball of about 58 caliber. It had obviously struck something as it was deformed from impact. Nana has already posted a picture of me holding it up for all to see. It left me wondering if it was fired in anger by some rebel trouper into the Union camp, or if it was simple used for target practice, or if anyone was injured or disabled by it before it went into the ground. It was mind bogling to think that some unknown soldier of that period in history had actually handled and fired that bullet and it lay there in the ground all those years. Perhaps it was a distant relative who fired it, or maybe a distant relative had been injured or killed by it...., or not, and finding it starts the mind to forming scenarios that of course will never be proved, but significant in my mind none the less. To me that is the epitomy of finding and holding relics of the Civil War. It is the catalyst that starts the mind to forming pictures of an era gone by yet so vivid that one can almost smell the smoke from the gunpowder and hear the boom of the cannon and the report of the many rifles as a skirmish is fought on that very piece of ground on which one is standing. Amazing! Monty
I got back home yesterday afternoon and had time to loll about and reflect on the hunt in Missouri. It was such a great pleasure to meet and interact with so many fine people from T-net, ones that I formerly just knew as a name or a number but now I have a face to go with it and now I can see them in my mind as I read their posts.
I would like to apologize to any of the members who did not recognize my usual jovial self as I did not get to mingle as much as I wanted to. I posted last week that I had been having a flare up with my back and to my chagrin it got worse from the drive to the hunt. I was in great pain and was taking mass quantities of pain killers just to remain upright so I could visit with everyone. I'm sure some of you could tell something was wrong so I think I owe you an explanation. So, that aside, I did very much enjoy the occasion.
On the day of the hunt I was able to make through about half the day before I had to take a seat and dose up! I found mass quantities of pieces of rusted barbed wire using my GTI 2500. I'm sure this was the remains of barbed wire used to keep the wild critters out of the encampment area. You never know when a wild badger, rabid skunk or ill tempered field mouse might attack them in their sleep as a Union soldier slept in his tent! Ineffective as it may have been, I'm sure it had some historical significance. Before lunch I did manage to recover a 3 ring minnie ball of about 58 caliber. It had obviously struck something as it was deformed from impact. Nana has already posted a picture of me holding it up for all to see. It left me wondering if it was fired in anger by some rebel trouper into the Union camp, or if it was simple used for target practice, or if anyone was injured or disabled by it before it went into the ground. It was mind bogling to think that some unknown soldier of that period in history had actually handled and fired that bullet and it lay there in the ground all those years. Perhaps it was a distant relative who fired it, or maybe a distant relative had been injured or killed by it...., or not, and finding it starts the mind to forming scenarios that of course will never be proved, but significant in my mind none the less. To me that is the epitomy of finding and holding relics of the Civil War. It is the catalyst that starts the mind to forming pictures of an era gone by yet so vivid that one can almost smell the smoke from the gunpowder and hear the boom of the cannon and the report of the many rifles as a skirmish is fought on that very piece of ground on which one is standing. Amazing! Monty
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I do hope you recover quickly. It was such a pleasure to finally meet you, and I do hope that we can meet up again soon. 
RR
